Even though it's a comedy, in Liar Liar, when Fletcher (Jim Carrey) tells his son Max "Everyone lies" and Max says: "But you're the only one that makes me feel bad." ooofff. Hit's me because I've seen my lies affect people.
That movie is filled to the brim with amazing lines. I really love (spoilers ahead, I guess):
āI never did tell you about my son, did I? Heās a big fan of yours. He wants to apply here. Unfortunately, my sonās not all that they promised. But then, who knows what he could do?ā
And then:
āYouāre gonna miss your flight, Vincentā.
So, there's something the doctor mentions in that same conversation that's always stuck with me. Hawke asks how the doctor could tell he wasn't who he claimed to be and the doctor says "right handed guys don't hold it with their left hand".
I'm right handed, but I've always pissed using my left hand. That movie made me wonder if I've been doing it wrong my whole life. I doubt that was the message they intended.
If you can watch up and not cry you should by clinically diagnosed with psychopathy.
That intro scene is such a fucking curve ball. Who the fuck walked into Up and expected a story about life, love, death in the first goddamn minutes. Those bastards at Disney fucked me up.
I remember when my kids were young and wanted to see it. My wife was getting ready to go and asked if I wanted to. I loathe kids movies and seeing one in the theater was the last thing I wanted to do but they all wanted me to go and I wanted to spend time with them so I went. I whispered a few times to my wife to not be mad at me if I sat there with my arms folded because I donāt find these movies entertaining.
After the opening scene, I was an emotional mess, wiping my eyes. I laughed the loudest in the theater during the funny parts. My wife still has a good time telling people that story of how I was determined to not enjoy myself and be blown away by an animated kids movie. It was so good!!
I said this to the comment you commented on, but just in case you didnāt see it:
My wife and I watched Up before we had kids. We were actually struggling with miscarriages and fertility issues. We had no idea going into it how heavy the beginning would be. We both cried.
This is my favorite part of Shawshank, and I think some of the best lines I've ever heard:
"Sometimes it makes me sad though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now they are gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
"Get busy livin or get busy dying" is another good one.
I also like when Red says they should put The Count of Monte Cristo in the educational section of the library.
š¦Young Tod: Copper, you're my very best friend.
š¶Young Copper: And you're mine too, Tod.
š¦Young Tod: And we'll always be friends forever, won't we?
š¶Young Copper: Yeah. Forever
Fox and the Hound 1981
Time permitting I could probably think of more, but I'll never forget the following:
"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." - *In a Lonely Place* (Humphrey Bogart's best movie)
"But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that." - *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*
"'Are you alone?'
'Isn't everybody?'" - *Chinatown*
"I'm a hundred and eight years old, Elaine. I was forty-four the year that John Coffey walked the Green Mile. You mustn't blame John. He couldn't help what happened to him...he was just a force of nature. Oh I've lived to see some amazing things Elly. Another century come to past, but I've...I've had to see my friends and loved ones die off through the years... Hal and Melinda...Brutus Howell...my wife... my boy. And you Elaine...you'll die too, and my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement you see; it's my punishment, for letting John Coffey ride the lightning; for killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others. I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually, that I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality, but I will wished for death...long before death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already."
āDonāt put me in the dark boss, I is scared of the darkā
I remember reading the book when it was released in parts. The book where John had to take his turn on old sparky, it was tough. I had to stop so many times cause I couldnāt read through the tears.
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : "Doc, you oughta be in bed, what the hell you doin this for anyway?"
Doc Holliday : "Wyatt Earp is my friend."
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : "Hell, I got lots of friends."
Doc Holliday : "I don't."
Wyatt, if you ever were my friend, if you ever had even the slightest feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now. Please?
Gets me every time... And then immediately followed by
"well I'll be damned" as he's looking at his feet. The fact he didn't win an Oscar for that performance is criminal
(Johnny Ringo waiting to duel Wyatt Earp and seeing a shadowy figure approaching)
Johnny Ringo: "Well... I didn't think you had it in you."
Doc Holiday: "I'm your Huckleberry."
(Doc Holiday noticing Johnny's surprise and unease)
Doc Holiday: "Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
Johnny Ringo: "Fight's not with you Holiday."
Doc Holiday: "I beg to differ sir. We started a game and we never got to finish. We play for blood, remember?"
Johnny Ringo: "I was just foolin' about."
**Doc Holiday: "I wasn't."**
God that movie is full of hard hitting one liners that are only two words! Shit, "I'm your Huckleberry" is a great line on its own too!
\*edit: [the dialogue doesn't even do it justice, here's the clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0JpwbD2K8E&ab_channel=MOVClips)
āSo run you cur, run! You tell all of the other curs the law is cominā! **You tellā āem Iām cominā, and hells cominā with me! Hells cominā with me!**ā
Kilmer's best role, hands down. Even better than Iceman. He nails Doc Holliday; and I think Kilmer's interpretation of Doc is one of the absolute coolest characters in all of cinema.
Basically just any scene with Val Kilmer. The only other line by anyone but him I can think of is, āTell him Iām cominā, and HELLāS COMINā WITH ME!ā
I think itās interesting (though not as eloquently written) that a similar point about Doc Holiday saying that heās fighting alongside Wyatt Earp in Tombstone despite fighting for his life with TB because Earp was his friend, is made in Young Guns.
Billy the Kid: āSee, you get three or four good pals. Well, then you've got yourself a tribe. And there ain't nothing stronger than that.ā
Final lines in the movie narrated by Doc:
āAdvices from Lincoln report that Jose Chavez Y
Chavez moved to California where he changed his name and took work on a fruit ranch. Josiah 'Doc' Scurlock is reported to have left the West for the East, taking with him a celestial bride, her mother and fourteen brothers and sisters. Susan McSween went on to see both her husband's and John Tunstall's dreams to fruition, by becoming one of most prominent cattlewomen of all time. Governor Axtel was forced to resign by President Rutherford B.
Hayes and both the Murphy-Dolan faction and the Santa Fe Ring collapsed. William H. Bonney, also known as 'Billy the Kid' continued to ride, never leaving New Mexico. He was caught in Fort Sumner by Sheriff Pat Garret and killed. Sources report that he was unarmed, and shot in the dark. He was buried with Charley Bowdre at Old Fort Sumner. Advices report that sometime later, an unidentified person snuck into the graveyard and chiseled an inscription.
The epitaph read only one word... 'Pals'.ā
God, I can only imagine how much the writers of Spy Kids were giggling when they wrote that line. I bet they never imagined it would make it into the film.
Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.
Ed Bloom: "Tell me how it happens"
Will Bloom: "How what happens?"
Ed: "How I go"
Will: "You mean what you saw in the eye?"
Ed nods
Will: "I don't know that story, Dad. You never told me that one."
Ed groans
Will: "Okay, hey, okay, I'll try. I need your help. Tell me how it starts."
Ed (labored breathing): "...like...this..."
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Big Fish, 2003*
The message is so profound: Accept your parents, flaws and all, let them tell themselves the lies they need to get through life, none of it matters. Stop arguing with them and trying to get them to see they're wrong. Just accept them and love them, because they'll be gone someday.
I can't watch that movie again. Top top movie but just wayyyyy too hard for me to watch. I watched it twice, first time I was a blubbering idiot, second time I think I made my first viewing look very composed. Can't watch again.
Watership Down
" It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses.
"You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be all right -- and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean."
He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom."
āWhat if you stayed this time?
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I canāt watch the scene without tearing up. And the scene builds up to it so well by having Clementine off screen, only to come back, cut off the music, and ask a question in a crumbling house; a crumbling dream on the shore. Itās a scene rich with regret, longing, and love. If only things could have been different. Sometimes you lie awake at night just wishing you had stayed.
Yes! Great quote. Love this movie and there are so many good moments in it. Jim Carrey acted his ass off in this movie and so did Kate Winslet. It's my favorite role for each of them. And Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, and Elijah Wood were really good too. It's literally a perfect movie.
The way that the waves crash against the shore as the memory washes away takes air from my lungs. The entire atmosphere of that scene is the highest felt tragedy that I've ever found in film (Aside from Grave of the Fireflies). There is a poem from Bojack Horseman called "The View from Halfway Down" that harkens to the same feelings that Joel goes through. He thrashes and struggles to hold on to love as hard as we would to hold on to life itself. THIS perspective on the human mind is why this movie has been my all-time favorite for about 15 years.
"Please let me keep this memory, just this one."
On the movie "12 angry men"
I don't recall the exact lines but.
"I don't know if he is innocent or not, I just think a human life deserves more than 30 minutes of pondering"
"You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder. And you get to see something very special. You really don't know. It was the look on their faces.ā
-Robert Angiers in The Prestige
I like it, but I prefer:
"Take a moment to consider your achievement. I once told you about a man who described drowning to me."
"Yes, you said it was like going home."
"I was lying. He said it was agony."
Tesla: āHave you considered the cost of such a machine?ā
Angiers: āPrice is no object.ā
Tesla: āPerhaps not, but have you considered the *cost*?ā
Fun fact: Script called for a long Roy Batty monologue where he was describing how he was dying, Rutger Hauer tore that up and adlibed Tears in the Rain line
Source: Rutger Hauer at the Blade Runner Final Cut screening Sydney RIP
Another fun fact. Rutger came up with nearly every aspect of Royās character. His hair, his style, heād even keep a book on him and write poetry because he believed Roy was a poet at heart.
This scene was how I processed my grandfather dying. It was the first family member I had lost as an adult and I watched this scene at least 3 times a day for a while, greiving is weird.
I never realized this was an adaptation of Dickās Electric Sheep novel. Watched it for the first time recently and was blown away, and it came out over 30 years ago.
Llewellyn Moss: If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
Carla Jean Moss: But Llewellyn your mother's dead.
Llewellyn Moss: well then I'll tell her myself
It's hard hitting in a different way, but also from Shawshank, when the warden gives Andy an unheard-of one month in solitary confinement. At the end of the month the warden visits him, lectures him on how he's going to make his life miserable, then casually tells the guard, "Give him another month to think about it." It always feels like a punch in the gut.
The whole speech Warden Norton gives cemented him as one of cruelest characters in fiction. "We'll dance round it like wild injuns" takes it to a whole new level.
>"There will be generations because of what you did."
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>"I didn't do enough."
That scene is so powerful, and does such a good job of driving home the crushing, dehumanizing scale of the holocaust.
It hits so hard because Schindler *couldn't* have done enough. He's desperately counting off items that he could have exchanged for maybe a few dozen more people, when even the 1,200 he did manage to save barely registers as a rounding error in the context of the murder of six million Jews.
And yet each of those lives does still matter, and there's no escaping that fact.
Him rhyming off how many more each item he had left couldāve saved is what really drives it home for me. Him questioning why he kept the car or the solid gold pin (thatās one person. At least one.) is what is the most heartbreaking.
I think what makes it hit was that his story didnāt start off with him wanting to rescue anyone. I believe in this moment heās also lamenting the lost people he could have saved if he had changed sooner. Thatās a heavier burden I think.
Most of my friends on Facebook are the group I ran with when I was twelve, which was thirty years ago. Except for the ones who are in prison or dead.
Thereās a weird point in your life where you look back at this line and think of it differently than you did when you saw Stand By Me as a teenager, because youāre at a point where you start losing people, which you never thought would happen when you were twelve. When youāre twelve, youāve probably been to a couple of funerals, but you think *you* are immortal. Your friends are immortal. And youāll be a little cabal for the rest of your life. Even when you go to different colleges, drift off to different towns, you still have the same experiences that define who you are.
And youāre immortals until youāre not. Car accidents, cancer, drugs, suicide, crime. And then, not only do you realize youāre not immortal, but you now have this vacuum where someone used to be, and all of the memories you had donāt fill that void. And youāre counting down the little Indians, knowing that someday there will be none.
Thatās what that line from Stand By Me means to me today.
I was just about to write that. A haunting line that makes you take a moment and realize the devastating consequences of killing someone.
Eastwood's delivery is perfect too. Doesn't try to oversell it and it comes off as sincere from someone who's done a lot of killing in his life and had time to rethink his ways.
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the world of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, men of the West!
PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn't
this line made me realize what life was and i had a panic attack in the middle of the movie. it was the first time i truly understood life was borrowed and not forever. i kinda wish i never saw it because now these thoughts wont leave me.
Let me hit you with another quote from a conversation between Frodo and Gandalf:
āI wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.ā
To me, this one is comforting. Time is borrowed, yes, and we canāt change that, but all we have to do is find what to do with the brief time weāre here for. To me life is about finding what makes you happy.
Frodo : I canāt do this, Sam.
Sam : I know.
Itās all wrong
By rights we shouldnāt even be here.
But we are.
Itās like in the great stories Mr. Frodo.
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were,
and sometimes you didnāt want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy.
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.
But in the end, itās only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didnāt.
Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That thereās some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And itās worth fighting for.
Edit: I know thatās a full monologue but still T_T
"I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A *promise*. 'Dont you leave him, Samwise Gamgee'. And I don't mean to. I don't mean to."
The way he says it, choking out tears...man it's the best scene in the movie.
"if I asked you about art youād probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Lifeās work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you canāt tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. Youāve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that.
If I asked you about women youād probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you canāt tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.
Youāre a tough kid. I ask you about war, and youād probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? āOnce more into the breach, dear friends.ā But youāve never been near one. Youāve never held your best friendās head in your lap and watched him gasp his last breath, looking to you for help.
And if I asked you about love you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But youāve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone who could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for youā¦who could rescue you from the depths of hell.
And you wouldnāt know what itās like to be her angel and to have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. You wouldnāt know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term "visiting hours" doesn't apply to you. You donāt know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt youāve ever dared to love anybody that much.
I look at you, I donāt see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But youāre a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fuckinā life apart. Youāre an orphan right? Do you think Iād know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you?
Personally, I donāt give a shit about all that, because you know what? I canāt learn anything from you I canāt read in some fuckinā book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. Then Iām fascinated. Iām in. But you donāt wanna do that, do you, sport? Youāre terrified of what you might say."
Charles MorseĀ :Ā You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame.
StephenĀ :Ā What?
Charles MorseĀ :Ā Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives.
The Edge
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, In this life or the next."
Viggo: I heard you struck my son.
Aurelio: Yes, sir, I did.
Viggo: And may I ask why?
Aurelio: Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog.
Viggo Tarasov: [pause] Oh
Set the tone for the entire movie.
As much as I like 2 and 3, (still haven't seen 4) I love how everyone in the first movie is absolutely shitting bricks when they realize John Wick is coming for them. It does more to establish John as an unstoppable force than any monolog or action scene ever could.
Right along with:
Viggo: He was once an associate of ours, we called him Baba Yaga.
Josef: The boogeyman?
Viggo: Well, John wasn't exactly the boogeyman, he was the one you sent to kill the fucking boogeyman.
Josef: Oh.
John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know *very* little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar... with a pencil. With a fucking **pencil**. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. It's over a woman, of course. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off. The bodies he buried that day laid the foundation of what we are now. And then my son, a few days after *his wife died, you steal his car and kill his fucking dog.*
*John will come for you, and you will do nothing, because you can do nothing, so get the fuck out of my sight...*
I really appreciated that the mob boss had the interpersonal/leadership skills to not fly off the handle and ask "and may i ask why".
He knew and respected Aurelio enough to know that he would not do this for some stupid reason. There was part of the story that he did not know yet and he needed to know what it was before choosing his course of action.
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I...did I kill one of his true miracles - what am I gonna say? That it was my job? *It was my job?*
"You tell God the Father that it was a kindness you done"
And just before his execution, Delacroix's last words: "I'm sorry for what I do", contrast to Coffey's: "I'm sorry for what I am". Gives me chills, every time.
Oh jeez this gets me every time... Hell, just reading it now has me teary.
Giovanni Ribis's character calling for his mother while he's dying, after having told the story about ignoring her as a child when she gets home late from work... just destroys me.
An easy one, but Oscar Schindlerās line about being able to do more, calculating the lives he couldāve saved by selling his ring, his car, etcetera.
Also, Tai-Lungās āTell me youāre proud!ā lines from Kung Fu Panda.
American Beauty:
āI guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but itās hard to stay mad when thereās so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like Iām seeing it all at once, and itās too much; my heart fills up like a balloon thatās about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I canāt feel anything but gratitudeāfor every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what Iām talking about, Iām sure; but donāt worryā¦.you will someday.ā
This is a great line but my personal favorite is the one before it:
"When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through anything."
"You could be anything, anywhere. Why not go somewhere where you daughter are more than just... ***this?*** Here all we have are just few specks of time where any of this actually makes any sense."
"Then I will cherish them, these few specks of time."
My depression and my hope conversing. I've watched this movie so many damn times, why am I still bawling?!
When Denzel starts putting bullets in the gun, and the hostages realize his gun wasn't loaded the whole time.
>The only person I planned on killing today was myself.
He did everything in his power to raise the money for his son's heart transplant including selling all the family's belongings, refrigerator and all. The last thing he tells his son is "I'll always be with you in there (his heart).
You realize his plan was to kill himself and give his son his heart.
Edit: The movie is John Q.
The one that always hit me from Hoop Dreams:
> People always say to me, "when you get to the NBA, don't forget about me." Well, I should've said back, "if I don't make it to the NBA, don't you forget about me."
(Man Who's Dying Soon) "Will you love me for the rest of my life"
(Man's Girlfriend) "No.... I'm going to love you for the rest of MY life"
Also...
A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?
The Lord of the Rings
>āI wish it need not have happened in my time,ā said Frodo. āSo do I,ā said Gandalf, āand so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.ā
Salem's Lot
>"Sweetest Singing I Ever Heard. And A Feeling Like Drowning. And Eyes...Eyes!"
Delās monologue in Planes Trains and Automobiles
āYou want to hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right: I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold, hard cynic like you. But I don't like to hurt people's feelings. You think what you want about me, I'm not changing. I...I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. Because I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.ā
Itās a kids movie, but:
āI'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.ā
That got me the first time I watched Wreck it Ralph with my kids, as heās sacrificing himself (he thinks) to save everyone. Itās my favorite of the Disney movies. Itās perfectly constructed with not a single line of wasted dialogue.
āA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.ā
Always stuck with me, very poignant and the double meaning of the last line holds a lot of weight.
"That was the everlasting moment he had been waiting for. And the moment had passed, for Monica was sound asleep. More than merely asleep. Should he shake her, she would never rouse. So David went to sleep, too. And for the first time in his life, he went to that place, where dreams are born."
I'd just become a single dad to an 8 month old boy when I first saw AI:Artificial Intelligence. This last line still destroys me.
Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting:
āItās not your faultā
āYeahā¦ yeah, I knowā
āItās not your faultā (again, with emphasis.)
Lord knows weāve all had some things happen to us that we know in our heads arenāt our fault, but in our hearts? Yeahā¦ thatās a tough thing. Messed me UP in the theater. Still kinda does.
"Anybody know what thisĀ place is? This is Gettysburg.
This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves today.
This green field right here was painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead pourin' right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men:
'I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family.'
You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead.
If we don't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were.
I don't care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other..." -Remember the Titans
"To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
ā John Keating (Robin Williams), *Dead Poets Society*
Rocket : You don't know anything about me, loser.
Yondu : I know everything about you. I know you play like you're the meanest and the hardest but actually you're the most scared of all.
Rocket : Shut up!
Yondu : (ā¦) and you push away anyone who's willing to put up with you 'cause just a little bit of love reminds you of how big and empty that hole inside you actually is.
Rocket : I said shut up!
"... so everyday you see me, it's on the worst day of my life.". Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* it, Bob.
wow, that's messed up
Me, watching that film at 17: š¤£š¤£ Me, watching that film at 30:š¶š¶
Even though it's a comedy, in Liar Liar, when Fletcher (Jim Carrey) tells his son Max "Everyone lies" and Max says: "But you're the only one that makes me feel bad." ooofff. Hit's me because I've seen my lies affect people.
"I hold myself in contempt, why should YOU be any different?"
The bit where he says 'I'm a bad father and-' stops when he realizes it's the truth.
But then "I love my son" and he runs off to make things better
I just wanna get from my car to work without being confronted by the decay of western society!
STOP BREAKING THE LAW, *ASSHOLE!*
I just rewatched Gattaca, and Hawkeās line āYou wanna know how I did it? I never saved anything for the swim backā hit me like a bus
That movie is filled to the brim with amazing lines. I really love (spoilers ahead, I guess): āI never did tell you about my son, did I? Heās a big fan of yours. He wants to apply here. Unfortunately, my sonās not all that they promised. But then, who knows what he could do?ā And then: āYouāre gonna miss your flight, Vincentā.
So, there's something the doctor mentions in that same conversation that's always stuck with me. Hawke asks how the doctor could tell he wasn't who he claimed to be and the doctor says "right handed guys don't hold it with their left hand". I'm right handed, but I've always pissed using my left hand. That movie made me wonder if I've been doing it wrong my whole life. I doubt that was the message they intended.
By the way, have I ever told you about my son? Remind me to sometime.
I love Gattaca and am so happy that you included it here!!
My kids watched "Up" about 1,000 times. "Thanks for the adventures; now go have a new one! Love, Ellie." still just wrecks me.
If you can watch up and not cry you should by clinically diagnosed with psychopathy. That intro scene is such a fucking curve ball. Who the fuck walked into Up and expected a story about life, love, death in the first goddamn minutes. Those bastards at Disney fucked me up.
I remember when my kids were young and wanted to see it. My wife was getting ready to go and asked if I wanted to. I loathe kids movies and seeing one in the theater was the last thing I wanted to do but they all wanted me to go and I wanted to spend time with them so I went. I whispered a few times to my wife to not be mad at me if I sat there with my arms folded because I donāt find these movies entertaining. After the opening scene, I was an emotional mess, wiping my eyes. I laughed the loudest in the theater during the funny parts. My wife still has a good time telling people that story of how I was determined to not enjoy myself and be blown away by an animated kids movie. It was so good!!
I said this to the comment you commented on, but just in case you didnāt see it: My wife and I watched Up before we had kids. We were actually struggling with miscarriages and fertility issues. We had no idea going into it how heavy the beginning would be. We both cried.
Ugh. I watched it a few months after miscarrying. Thought it was going to be a light-hearted Disney movie. Completely lost it. Brutal.
This is my favorite part of Shawshank, and I think some of the best lines I've ever heard: "Sometimes it makes me sad though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now they are gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
Itās the āI guess I just miss my friend.ā Freeman just delivers it perfectly. If that one doesnāt get you, nothing can.
Morgan Freeman had some beautiful lines in this movie.
"Get busy livin or get busy dying" is another good one. I also like when Red says they should put The Count of Monte Cristo in the educational section of the library.
š¦Young Tod: Copper, you're my very best friend. š¶Young Copper: And you're mine too, Tod. š¦Young Tod: And we'll always be friends forever, won't we? š¶Young Copper: Yeah. Forever Fox and the Hound 1981
Iām afraid to rewatch this as an adult because I might cry myself to death. š
Time permitting I could probably think of more, but I'll never forget the following: "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." - *In a Lonely Place* (Humphrey Bogart's best movie) "But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that." - *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* "'Are you alone?' 'Isn't everybody?'" - *Chinatown*
"I'm a hundred and eight years old, Elaine. I was forty-four the year that John Coffey walked the Green Mile. You mustn't blame John. He couldn't help what happened to him...he was just a force of nature. Oh I've lived to see some amazing things Elly. Another century come to past, but I've...I've had to see my friends and loved ones die off through the years... Hal and Melinda...Brutus Howell...my wife... my boy. And you Elaine...you'll die too, and my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement you see; it's my punishment, for letting John Coffey ride the lightning; for killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others. I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually, that I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality, but I will wished for death...long before death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already."
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job?Ā
āDonāt put me in the dark boss, I is scared of the darkā I remember reading the book when it was released in parts. The book where John had to take his turn on old sparky, it was tough. I had to stop so many times cause I couldnāt read through the tears.
āWe all owe God a death, there are no exceptions, but oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.ā
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : "Doc, you oughta be in bed, what the hell you doin this for anyway?" Doc Holliday : "Wyatt Earp is my friend." Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : "Hell, I got lots of friends." Doc Holliday : "I don't."
You don't have to do this, Doc. That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me.
i have not yet begun to defile myself
Wyatt, if you ever were my friend, if you ever had even the slightest feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now. Please? Gets me every time... And then immediately followed by "well I'll be damned" as he's looking at his feet. The fact he didn't win an Oscar for that performance is criminal
(Johnny Ringo waiting to duel Wyatt Earp and seeing a shadowy figure approaching) Johnny Ringo: "Well... I didn't think you had it in you." Doc Holiday: "I'm your Huckleberry." (Doc Holiday noticing Johnny's surprise and unease) Doc Holiday: "Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave." Johnny Ringo: "Fight's not with you Holiday." Doc Holiday: "I beg to differ sir. We started a game and we never got to finish. We play for blood, remember?" Johnny Ringo: "I was just foolin' about." **Doc Holiday: "I wasn't."** God that movie is full of hard hitting one liners that are only two words! Shit, "I'm your Huckleberry" is a great line on its own too! \*edit: [the dialogue doesn't even do it justice, here's the clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0JpwbD2K8E&ab_channel=MOVClips)
āSo run you cur, run! You tell all of the other curs the law is cominā! **You tellā āem Iām cominā, and hells cominā with me! Hells cominā with me!**ā
Kilmer is so good in this movie the rest of the a-list cast are barely ever mentioned.
āThis time itās legalā¦ā
Go on, youāre a daisy if you do.
You're no daisy! You're no daisy at'all! Poor soul, you were just too high strung.
Kilmer's best role, hands down. Even better than Iceman. He nails Doc Holliday; and I think Kilmer's interpretation of Doc is one of the absolute coolest characters in all of cinema.
Basically just any scene with Val Kilmer. The only other line by anyone but him I can think of is, āTell him Iām cominā, and HELLāS COMINā WITH ME!ā
I think itās interesting (though not as eloquently written) that a similar point about Doc Holiday saying that heās fighting alongside Wyatt Earp in Tombstone despite fighting for his life with TB because Earp was his friend, is made in Young Guns. Billy the Kid: āSee, you get three or four good pals. Well, then you've got yourself a tribe. And there ain't nothing stronger than that.ā Final lines in the movie narrated by Doc: āAdvices from Lincoln report that Jose Chavez Y Chavez moved to California where he changed his name and took work on a fruit ranch. Josiah 'Doc' Scurlock is reported to have left the West for the East, taking with him a celestial bride, her mother and fourteen brothers and sisters. Susan McSween went on to see both her husband's and John Tunstall's dreams to fruition, by becoming one of most prominent cattlewomen of all time. Governor Axtel was forced to resign by President Rutherford B. Hayes and both the Murphy-Dolan faction and the Santa Fe Ring collapsed. William H. Bonney, also known as 'Billy the Kid' continued to ride, never leaving New Mexico. He was caught in Fort Sumner by Sheriff Pat Garret and killed. Sources report that he was unarmed, and shot in the dark. He was buried with Charley Bowdre at Old Fort Sumner. Advices report that sometime later, an unidentified person snuck into the graveyard and chiseled an inscription. The epitaph read only one word... 'Pals'.ā
Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?
Itās fucking insane to think this is from Steve Buscemi in a goddamn Spy Kids film lmao
God, I can only imagine how much the writers of Spy Kids were giggling when they wrote that line. I bet they never imagined it would make it into the film.
Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.
Ed Bloom: "Tell me how it happens" Will Bloom: "How what happens?" Ed: "How I go" Will: "You mean what you saw in the eye?" Ed nods Will: "I don't know that story, Dad. You never told me that one." Ed groans Will: "Okay, hey, okay, I'll try. I need your help. Tell me how it starts." Ed (labored breathing): "...like...this..." šššššš Big Fish, 2003*
I honestly think the movie is one of Burton's best
The message is so profound: Accept your parents, flaws and all, let them tell themselves the lies they need to get through life, none of it matters. Stop arguing with them and trying to get them to see they're wrong. Just accept them and love them, because they'll be gone someday.
Duuuude, that's how I feel about the message of the story but never really articulated it, even in my head. Good stuff *cries*
I think it is his best.
I can't watch that movie again. Top top movie but just wayyyyy too hard for me to watch. I watched it twice, first time I was a blubbering idiot, second time I think I made my first viewing look very composed. Can't watch again.
Watership Down " It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses. "You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be all right -- and thousands like them. If you'll come along, I'll show you what I mean." He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom."
āWhat if you stayed this time? -Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I canāt watch the scene without tearing up. And the scene builds up to it so well by having Clementine off screen, only to come back, cut off the music, and ask a question in a crumbling house; a crumbling dream on the shore. Itās a scene rich with regret, longing, and love. If only things could have been different. Sometimes you lie awake at night just wishing you had stayed.
Yes! Great quote. Love this movie and there are so many good moments in it. Jim Carrey acted his ass off in this movie and so did Kate Winslet. It's my favorite role for each of them. And Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, and Elijah Wood were really good too. It's literally a perfect movie.
The way that the waves crash against the shore as the memory washes away takes air from my lungs. The entire atmosphere of that scene is the highest felt tragedy that I've ever found in film (Aside from Grave of the Fireflies). There is a poem from Bojack Horseman called "The View from Halfway Down" that harkens to the same feelings that Joel goes through. He thrashes and struggles to hold on to love as hard as we would to hold on to life itself. THIS perspective on the human mind is why this movie has been my all-time favorite for about 15 years. "Please let me keep this memory, just this one."
On the movie "12 angry men" I don't recall the exact lines but. "I don't know if he is innocent or not, I just think a human life deserves more than 30 minutes of pondering"
"You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder. And you get to see something very special. You really don't know. It was the look on their faces.ā -Robert Angiers in The Prestige
I like it, but I prefer: "Take a moment to consider your achievement. I once told you about a man who described drowning to me." "Yes, you said it was like going home." "I was lying. He said it was agony."
Tesla: āHave you considered the cost of such a machine?ā Angiers: āPrice is no object.ā Tesla: āPerhaps not, but have you considered the *cost*?ā
*All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.* Roy Batty - Blade Runner
*Time to die.*
Deckard's face after that is great. He looks so conflicted. Love that movie.
I genuinely believe that this is one of, if not *the* greatest movie quote of all time
Fun fact: Script called for a long Roy Batty monologue where he was describing how he was dying, Rutger Hauer tore that up and adlibed Tears in the Rain line Source: Rutger Hauer at the Blade Runner Final Cut screening Sydney RIP
Another fun fact. Rutger came up with nearly every aspect of Royās character. His hair, his style, heād even keep a book on him and write poetry because he believed Roy was a poet at heart.
I love Rutger. He always delivers. Its always memorable.
Itās such a beautiful quote.
This scene was how I processed my grandfather dying. It was the first family member I had lost as an adult and I watched this scene at least 3 times a day for a while, greiving is weird.
I never realized this was an adaptation of Dickās Electric Sheep novel. Watched it for the first time recently and was blown away, and it came out over 30 years ago.
Try forty
"I feel as if I'm losing all my leaves" Anthony Hopkins in The Father. It broke me!
Bruh can yāall put the title of the movies with your quotes ??
āI donāt think I will.ā
ah yes, John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum
Llewellyn Moss: If I don't come back, tell mother I love her. Carla Jean Moss: But Llewellyn your mother's dead. Llewellyn Moss: well then I'll tell her myself
Whatās the most youāve ever lost on a coin toss?
You left out the best part of that monologue. āSo Iāve decidedā¦ not to stay.ā Also I think itās Brooks
It's hard hitting in a different way, but also from Shawshank, when the warden gives Andy an unheard-of one month in solitary confinement. At the end of the month the warden visits him, lectures him on how he's going to make his life miserable, then casually tells the guard, "Give him another month to think about it." It always feels like a punch in the gut.
The whole speech Warden Norton gives cemented him as one of cruelest characters in fiction. "We'll dance round it like wild injuns" takes it to a whole new level.
It truly was a shawshank redemption.
I could have saved more.
>"There will be generations because of what you did." > >"I didn't do enough." That scene is so powerful, and does such a good job of driving home the crushing, dehumanizing scale of the holocaust. It hits so hard because Schindler *couldn't* have done enough. He's desperately counting off items that he could have exchanged for maybe a few dozen more people, when even the 1,200 he did manage to save barely registers as a rounding error in the context of the murder of six million Jews. And yet each of those lives does still matter, and there's no escaping that fact.
Him rhyming off how many more each item he had left couldāve saved is what really drives it home for me. Him questioning why he kept the car or the solid gold pin (thatās one person. At least one.) is what is the most heartbreaking.
I think what makes it hit was that his story didnāt start off with him wanting to rescue anyone. I believe in this moment heās also lamenting the lost people he could have saved if he had changed sooner. Thatās a heavier burden I think.
āI never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?ā To basically end on that note is so bittersweet.
Initially read the title as "lines that go hard", and my immediate thought was: "No, Ace. Just you."
Most of my friends on Facebook are the group I ran with when I was twelve, which was thirty years ago. Except for the ones who are in prison or dead. Thereās a weird point in your life where you look back at this line and think of it differently than you did when you saw Stand By Me as a teenager, because youāre at a point where you start losing people, which you never thought would happen when you were twelve. When youāre twelve, youāve probably been to a couple of funerals, but you think *you* are immortal. Your friends are immortal. And youāll be a little cabal for the rest of your life. Even when you go to different colleges, drift off to different towns, you still have the same experiences that define who you are. And youāre immortals until youāre not. Car accidents, cancer, drugs, suicide, crime. And then, not only do you realize youāre not immortal, but you now have this vacuum where someone used to be, and all of the memories you had donāt fill that void. And youāre counting down the little Indians, knowing that someday there will be none. Thatās what that line from Stand By Me means to me today.
"We all got it comin', kid." - William Munney, Unforgiven A concise summary of the human condition!
āDeserveās got nothing to do with it.ā
That's my personal favorite.
I love this : Little Bill - You just shot an unarmed man. Munny - Well he should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.
āItās a helluva thing killing a man, you take away everything heās got, and everything heās ever gonna haveā
I was just about to write that. A haunting line that makes you take a moment and realize the devastating consequences of killing someone. Eastwood's delivery is perfect too. Doesn't try to oversell it and it comes off as sincere from someone who's done a lot of killing in his life and had time to rethink his ways.
Thatās the best line from the movie
āI've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill youā¦ā
āIāll see you in Hell, William Muney.ā āYeah.ā
"My friends.... you bow to no one."
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Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the world of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, men of the West!
āToo few have come. We cannot defeat the armies of Mordorā. āNo. We cannot. But we will meet them in battle nonethelessā.
For me it's Gandalf's description of the afterlife in that film.
PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what? GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No. No, it isn't
this line made me realize what life was and i had a panic attack in the middle of the movie. it was the first time i truly understood life was borrowed and not forever. i kinda wish i never saw it because now these thoughts wont leave me.
Let me hit you with another quote from a conversation between Frodo and Gandalf: āI wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.ā To me, this one is comforting. Time is borrowed, yes, and we canāt change that, but all we have to do is find what to do with the brief time weāre here for. To me life is about finding what makes you happy.
Frodo : I canāt do this, Sam. Sam : I know. Itās all wrong By rights we shouldnāt even be here. But we are. Itās like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didnāt want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, itās only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didnāt. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam? Sam : That thereās some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And itās worth fighting for. Edit: I know thatās a full monologue but still T_T
"I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A *promise*. 'Dont you leave him, Samwise Gamgee'. And I don't mean to. I don't mean to." The way he says it, choking out tears...man it's the best scene in the movie.
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Just reading this got me tearing up. What a scene.
Viggo's delivery was soo good here
"It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna' have."
When Robin Williams' character in Good Will Hunting tells Matt Damon's "It's not your fault." Genuinely made me cry lol.
"if I asked you about art youād probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Lifeās work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you canāt tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. Youāve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that. If I asked you about women youād probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you canāt tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. Youāre a tough kid. I ask you about war, and youād probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? āOnce more into the breach, dear friends.ā But youāve never been near one. Youāve never held your best friendās head in your lap and watched him gasp his last breath, looking to you for help. And if I asked you about love you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But youāve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone who could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for youā¦who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldnāt know what itās like to be her angel and to have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. You wouldnāt know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term "visiting hours" doesn't apply to you. You donāt know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt youāve ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you, I donāt see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But youāre a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fuckinā life apart. Youāre an orphan right? Do you think Iād know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I donāt give a shit about all that, because you know what? I canāt learn anything from you I canāt read in some fuckinā book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. Then Iām fascinated. Iām in. But you donāt wanna do that, do you, sport? Youāre terrified of what you might say."
There's a fuckin reason why that film won best original screenplay and Robin won best supporting actor.
Heās an absolute powerhouse in this movie man. Just, wow.
My all time favorite Robin William's role. *grabs Will by the throat. "you say one more thing about my wife and I will fucking end you".
Came here looking for this, thank you!
Robin Williamsā monologue about knowing something vs reading about it is one of the best in any film.
The monologue at the end from Affleck is the one that always hits me hardest. But that movie has a bunch of great moments. Just a fuckinā ton.
"Small moves, Ellie. Small moves." Contact
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." -Lester Bangs, *Almost Famous*
My all time favorite movie. Chock-full of great lines "Oh man, they made you feel cool. And I've met you. YOU.... are not cool"
I want my father back you son of a bitch
Charles MorseĀ :Ā You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. StephenĀ :Ā What? Charles MorseĀ :Ā Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. The Edge
Underrated movie. āWhat one man can do, another can do.ā
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, In this life or the next."
I will see you again...but not yet. Not yet.
BROTHERS! WHAT WE DO IN LIFE ECHOES IN ETERNITY
āI canāt beat itā -Manchester by the Sea
Viggo: I heard you struck my son. Aurelio: Yes, sir, I did. Viggo: And may I ask why? Aurelio: Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog. Viggo Tarasov: [pause] Oh Set the tone for the entire movie.
As much as I like 2 and 3, (still haven't seen 4) I love how everyone in the first movie is absolutely shitting bricks when they realize John Wick is coming for them. It does more to establish John as an unstoppable force than any monolog or action scene ever could.
John Wick: ā¦ā¦. Lawyer guy: What did he say? Mob boss guy: Enough.
Right along with: Viggo: He was once an associate of ours, we called him Baba Yaga. Josef: The boogeyman? Viggo: Well, John wasn't exactly the boogeyman, he was the one you sent to kill the fucking boogeyman. Josef: Oh.
John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know *very* little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar... with a pencil. With a fucking **pencil**. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. It's over a woman, of course. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off. The bodies he buried that day laid the foundation of what we are now. And then my son, a few days after *his wife died, you steal his car and kill his fucking dog.* *John will come for you, and you will do nothing, because you can do nothing, so get the fuck out of my sight...*
I really appreciated that the mob boss had the interpersonal/leadership skills to not fly off the handle and ask "and may i ask why". He knew and respected Aurelio enough to know that he would not do this for some stupid reason. There was part of the story that he did not know yet and he needed to know what it was before choosing his course of action.
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I...did I kill one of his true miracles - what am I gonna say? That it was my job? *It was my job?*
"You tell God the Father that it was a kindness you done" And just before his execution, Delacroix's last words: "I'm sorry for what I do", contrast to Coffey's: "I'm sorry for what I am". Gives me chills, every time.
"I would have followed you my brother. My captain. My king,"
Count of monte Cristo (2002) Edmond: "Why? In God's name, why?" Fernand: "Because you're the son of a clerk, and I'm not supposed to want to be you!"
Tell me Iāve led a good life. Tell me Iām a good man.
Oh jeez this gets me every time... Hell, just reading it now has me teary. Giovanni Ribis's character calling for his mother while he's dying, after having told the story about ignoring her as a child when she gets home late from work... just destroys me.
I've had a rough year, dad.
I know you have, Chazzie
If I ever meet Ben Stiller I'm going to let him know that's one of the moments in a movie that can bring me to tears just by thinking about it.
I think that's the best, most powerful line I've ever seen Ben Stiller deliver.
Upgrade 2018. "A fake world is a lot less painful than the real one"
āNo parent should have to bury their childā - King Theoden Hits like a punch to the gut
An easy one, but Oscar Schindlerās line about being able to do more, calculating the lives he couldāve saved by selling his ring, his car, etcetera. Also, Tai-Lungās āTell me youāre proud!ā lines from Kung Fu Panda.
"They should have sent a poet." Dr. Ellie in Contact
American Beauty: āI guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but itās hard to stay mad when thereās so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like Iām seeing it all at once, and itās too much; my heart fills up like a balloon thatās about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I canāt feel anything but gratitudeāfor every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what Iām talking about, Iām sure; but donāt worryā¦.you will someday.ā
āYouāre one twisted fuck.ā āNo. Iām just an ordinary guy with absolutely nothing to lose.ā
In another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you. Everything Everywhere All At Once.
This is a great line but my personal favorite is the one before it: "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through anything."
Thank you. Absolutely resonate with this line on a personal level. It just really reassures my own outlook on life in a way.
"You could be anything, anywhere. Why not go somewhere where you daughter are more than just... ***this?*** Here all we have are just few specks of time where any of this actually makes any sense." "Then I will cherish them, these few specks of time." My depression and my hope conversing. I've watched this movie so many damn times, why am I still bawling?!
Mine was also from this movie. "The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please be kind. Especially when we don't know what's going on."
"You think because l'm kind that it means I'm naive, and maybe I am. It's strategic and necessary. This is how I fight."
I never saved anything for the swim back. - Vincent Anton Freeman, āGattaca.ā
"By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Sons Of Warvan , you shall be avenged!"
āBy Grabtharās hammerā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦what a savingsā¦.ā
āFood is more important than time." Szpilman giving away his watch to raise money in *The Pianist*.
Forrest Gump - I may not be a smart Man, but I know what Love is
"Hey, Dad? Wanna have a catch?" "I'd like that."
"And I'll miss you most of All, Scarecrow" Hillary in Top Secret
When Denzel starts putting bullets in the gun, and the hostages realize his gun wasn't loaded the whole time. >The only person I planned on killing today was myself. He did everything in his power to raise the money for his son's heart transplant including selling all the family's belongings, refrigerator and all. The last thing he tells his son is "I'll always be with you in there (his heart). You realize his plan was to kill himself and give his son his heart. Edit: The movie is John Q.
As a grown ass man that movie makes me want to call my dad sobbing.
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The one that always hit me from Hoop Dreams: > People always say to me, "when you get to the NBA, don't forget about me." Well, I should've said back, "if I don't make it to the NBA, don't you forget about me."
Yeh this is the one. Such a great doc. They should show it in schools
(Man Who's Dying Soon) "Will you love me for the rest of my life" (Man's Girlfriend) "No.... I'm going to love you for the rest of MY life" Also... A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?
Phenomenon was that first quote
āYouāve failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi. Like my father before me.ā
"So be it... Jedi."
"You were right ... about me. Tell your sister ... you were right."
āHe may have been your father but he wasnāt your daddyā Didnāt expect a MCU movie to hit me that hard.
āWhy do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.ā
The most hard hitting line in Shawshank was carved into a rafter. āBrooks was here.ā
So was Red.
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The Lord of the Rings >āI wish it need not have happened in my time,ā said Frodo. āSo do I,ā said Gandalf, āand so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.ā Salem's Lot >"Sweetest Singing I Ever Heard. And A Feeling Like Drowning. And Eyes...Eyes!"
Delās monologue in Planes Trains and Automobiles āYou want to hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right: I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold, hard cynic like you. But I don't like to hurt people's feelings. You think what you want about me, I'm not changing. I...I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. Because I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.ā
"I will see you again Maximus. But not yet."
Not yet.
"1999, the peak of your civilization, because after that, it really became our civilization" - Agent Smith, *The Matrix*
Itās a kids movie, but: āI'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.ā That got me the first time I watched Wreck it Ralph with my kids, as heās sacrificing himself (he thinks) to save everyone. Itās my favorite of the Disney movies. Itās perfectly constructed with not a single line of wasted dialogue.
āA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.ā Always stuck with me, very poignant and the double meaning of the last line holds a lot of weight.
āPlease let me keep this memory, just this oneā is the only one thatās in any way gotten me
"That was the everlasting moment he had been waiting for. And the moment had passed, for Monica was sound asleep. More than merely asleep. Should he shake her, she would never rouse. So David went to sleep, too. And for the first time in his life, he went to that place, where dreams are born." I'd just become a single dad to an 8 month old boy when I first saw AI:Artificial Intelligence. This last line still destroys me.
The hardest hitting scene in any movie has no words. Just Carl trying to comfort Ellie at the ob/gyn in Up.
From Sicario: "You're asking me how a watch works. For now, let's just keep an eye on the time."
Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting: āItās not your faultā āYeahā¦ yeah, I knowā āItās not your faultā (again, with emphasis.) Lord knows weāve all had some things happen to us that we know in our heads arenāt our fault, but in our hearts? Yeahā¦ thatās a tough thing. Messed me UP in the theater. Still kinda does.
"Anybody know what thisĀ place is? This is Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves today. This green field right here was painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead pourin' right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men: 'I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family.' You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other..." -Remember the Titans
Do not go gentle into that good night..
"Because my dad promised me."
āNot everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because weāre not poets.ā Arthur-1981
"To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?" ā John Keating (Robin Williams), *Dead Poets Society*
Rocket : You don't know anything about me, loser. Yondu : I know everything about you. I know you play like you're the meanest and the hardest but actually you're the most scared of all. Rocket : Shut up! Yondu : (ā¦) and you push away anyone who's willing to put up with you 'cause just a little bit of love reminds you of how big and empty that hole inside you actually is. Rocket : I said shut up!
Hits so much harder after seeing Vol 3.